Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Take that John Galt

The Supreme Court refused on Tuesday to consider reducing the Environmental Protection Agency's authority to set air quality standards, leaving intact a tough new limit on sulfur dioxide emissions in a victory for the Obama administration.
Without comment, the court decided not to hear an appeal by Grupo Mexico SAB's Asarco LLC unit of a lower court ruling that upholds a 2010 EPA rule limiting sulfur dioxide in the air to 75 parts per billion over one hour.

Obviously, this is a major reaffirmation that the EPA still has the ability to regulate carbon pollution as well - much to the consternation of tea partiers and FoxNews punditry.